the Steampunk Guide to surviving the Apocolypse.

from the Guide itself:

So you’ve decided to survive the Apocalypse. Congratulations! Your fierce, unyielding Determination has already put you Head and Shoulders above your Competition. And your Appreciation of the less subtle Technologies of Yesteryear shall put you even farther above. Hundreds of Meters above, in fact, if you manage to get yourself a Dirigible!

Consider this Book to be your boon Companion during the trying Times that lie ahead. No single Tome—no matter how voluminous—could be complete, of course, but this little Handbook should aid in keeping you fed, watered, clothed, and protected from the myriad Hazards of Weather, Human, and Beast.

A courageous Future lies ahead of us. We wave goodbye, on no uncertain Terms, to the invisible Workings of the cyberian World. Our Future lies in an honest Technology, a Technology that is within our Reach, a Technology that will not abandon us, a Technology that requires not the dark Oils of subterranean Caverns.

But if you make it no farther into this Book than Page one, leave with this Motto: “One who clings to Modernity will fall with Modernity. But one who builds water-powered Refrigerators will eat summer Fruits in Autumn.”

The enlightened individuals who bring us the e-zine STEAMPUNK MAGAZINE have published an independent e-book entitled: THE STEAMPUNK GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE APOCOLYPSE (a free aetheric instruction manual).

The guide is quite tongue-in-cheek, reminiscient of Max Brooks' hilarious guide on the zombie apocolypse published some time back, but done in strict, precise and consistent Victorian prose. I thought it was quite amusing!

If you have been reading this journal for some time now, you will recall I mentioned this periodical when it was first getting started (much like this journal was at the stime). I thought it was a yeomen like effort back at the time, but I can only praise the publication's growth in quality and quantity over the course of a year. Well done, indeed.

Issue four (cover art above right) is NOW availabe for free download.

H.